Rein-holder



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` G. S. WHISTON.

REIN HOLDER.

Patented Feb. 15, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES S. WHISTON, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

REIN-HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,946, dated February 15, 1887.

Application filed July 3. 1886.

To all whom t may concern:

Bc it known that l, CHARLEs SHALEE WHIS- TON, of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Rein- Holders; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to rein holders, the object being to provide a device of this character of simple, economical, and durable construction adapted to be readily attached to the edge of a vehicle dash-board.

The invention consists in the combination, withastationary lower jaw,of aspring-pressed upper jaw adapted to yield at each end.

The invention further consists in the various features of construction, hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents my improved rein-holder applied to a dash-board. Figs. 2, 3, 4, and illustrate parts in detail.

The lower jaw, A, of the device is grooved on its undersidethroughout its length to adapt it to tit snugly upon the rounded edge of a dash-board, and said jaw is beveled at the upper sides of its ends, as seen at a a.

B represents a lug or plate formed integral with the jaw A at one side of the latter, and said lug is inwardly curved at its lower end, b.

C represents a removable lug or plate corresponding in form to the lug B, secured removably to the jaw A, opposite the lug B, by screws c, the said jaw being recessed to receive the lug.

D represents a yielding jaw arranged upon the jaw A, and grooved on its under side, as shown at d, and centrally recessed on its under side to tit over a central upward projection, e, formed upon the jaw A. The ends of the jaw B are bent upwardly to form, in connection with the beveled ends of the jaw A, ilaring spaces E E, to receive the reins. Thejaw D is held in place by means of a screw, F,

which passes through an opening,f, in said Serial No. 207,116. (No model.)

jaw and into a threaded socket, f', formed in the central projection, e, of the lower jaw. Between the upper side of the jaw D and the head of the screw F is interposed a spanning spring, G, whose ends are held in depressions h h, formed in the upper surface of the jaw D, and whose central portion is provided with an opening, z', through which the screw passes.

The device as thus constructed is adapted to be removably secured to the edge of a dashboard by clamping the latter between the curved lugs B and C, the lug C, as already eX- plained, being removable to permit of the at- 4 tachment.

The reins are adapted to be slipped between the jaws, one rein at each end, through the spaces E E. Itwill be apparent that the jaw' l.'In a rein-holder, the combination, with CHARLES S. WH ISTON.

Witnesses:

G. L. LEwis, GEo. ALEXANDER. 

